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Celebrate EarthBound, the Super Nintendo cult classic video game, for a full 365 days with Batter’s Almanac, a beautifully illustrated 2019 wall calendar. Front, back, inside, and out! This calendar was created through a collaboration of artists all around the globe, inspired by one little video game that came out nearly 25 years ago.

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This EarthBound-inspired calendar comes complete with original art, wacky holidays (normal ones, too!), and everything you need to stay organized in a fun, humorous, and heartfelt style. Follow along with project development at @battersalmanac on Twitter and help spread the word about this incredible project, designed by fans for fans.

Batter’s Almanac is a yearlong celebration of the SNES sleeper hit, EarthBound. If you haven’t heard of the game, that’s ok! A lot of people haven't. Originally released in 1994 in Japan as MOTHER 2, the game was localized and released stateside under the title EarthBound in 1995. During its initial stateside release, it went a bit underappreciated. Since then it has grown a real hidden gem status, especially in recent years, with its evergreen themes of childhood adventure, satirical Americana, and cute foibles. Inside this twelve month calendar, complete with additional front and back illustrated covers, are lovingly crafted illustrations to inspire your own adventures, and also help you keep track of when National Hotdog Day is. (FYI, it is going to be on July 19 in 2019. Don’t worry, we’ve already marked your calendar for you.)

We're working hard on a product that both fans of EarthBound and weird calendars can enjoy.

This is the perfect addition for anyone who’s a fan of the EarthBound series and wants something unique to spiff up their office or bedroom. Actually, this is the perfect addition for anyone who appreciates the arts, celebrates weird holidays, or compulsively buys calendars! You don't have to be a fan of the series to own this piece of coolness. There’s so much love, talent, and skill in each and every illustration this piece contains.

One of the things we suggest you do is that once the year is over, don’t throw this calendar away! Take it apart! Each monthly illustration acts as its own 11” x 8.5” (28cm x 22cm) mini-poster you can hang up and enjoy for all of 2020! (Or at least until you decide you hate art and lack culture, but you wouldn’t do that, would you?)

We're using Kickstarter in order to print the calendar in big batches, making them more affordable for everyone, especially the backers! We want to help support our artists and the community so if we just get in all our orders right now, we'll be able to get a good discounted price that we;ll be able to pass onto you, our backers. Everyone wins, that and we get to post cute promo art and behind-the-scenes stuff!

Each month of the Batter’s Almanac features a new artist, important dates related to the EarthBound/MOTHER series, wacky holidays, the standard US holidays, and space to add your own special reminders. Like when your next dental appointment is! You remembered to make an appointment, didn’t you? We hope so! In the meantime, let’s take a look at the art you’ll find only in this calendar!

The calendar itself is printed by Paragon Press on 80# glossy paper with the cover being 100# glossy. This gives it strength and shininess, like your teeth after that dentist appointment. The calendar when hung on a wall is 11" wide x 17" tall (28cm x 43cm). The calendar is saddle-stitched (for the uninitiated this means it’s bound with tough staples) and already has a hole drilled in it so it’ll be ready to hang as soon as you get it! Fulfillment of all and production of some backer rewards will be done by our friends and partners, The Yetee.

We figured out how to get more than 4 party members on our calendar building quest! Who knew? Read a bit about the artists who joined in on the adventure and whose work you will be supporting:

CAI VE: September Illustrator - ケLV is a freelance illustrator/animator that lives in the forbidden woods of the northwest. They have a deep love for monsters. You might know them from doodling said monsters in other projects like the Mother’s Cookbook or the Legend’s Cookbook. They also believe that Gabilans should totally exist on the Earth.

JORGE M. VELEZ: June Illustrator -"I'm Jorge M. Velez. One day I'll make a comic but drawing fan art of video games I love is too much fun. EB is one of those games. Favorite Flavor: Banana."

KELLY KIRSCH: November Illustrator -"I am a lover of church, the outdoors, and blueberry Pop-Tarts with no frosting. EarthBound has indirectly given me some of my greatest blessings, even though I'm really really bad at it."

I SO ONETT: January Illustrator - "Hello everyone, Onett here. I'm very proud be one of the calendar project artists. EarthBound was a very special game to me, filled with cute animals that could be friendly or enemies! Let's brighten the Earth, Fuzzy Pickles!"

DREW WISE: Back Cover Illustrator - "makes all kinds of video game art stuff. smells nice. also EarthBound. also art."

HONOUR HARRY: October Illustrator - Honour is an artist from Texas living in California! She's had crazy adventures, made so many friends and found the love of her life through a silly game called EarthBound! She likes tea, retro video games, and ghost stories, and she's always excited for collaborations!

PECULIAR TIFFANY: April Illustrator - Tiffany is an eclectic artist from Nashville, TN. Ruled by her penchant for cute things and video games, she can typically be found designing game-inspired tee designs or daydreaming about creating anything and everything with a puppy face on it.

KENNEDY PARKER: February Illustrator - Kennedy's not very good at writing bios, but according to her Twitter page she's an illustrator, YouTuber, digital marketer, the person who runs the Bootleg Stuff page, and amateur historian. Not only is EarthBound one of her all-time favorite games to ever grace the planet, but this is also without a doubt the biggest illustration project she's ever been a part of, so she's super excited to be involved on this project!

NICK LAUER: Front Cover, Logo, Stickers, T-shirt, Caricature, and July Illustrator - Nick Lauer is an animation student who loves drawing characters from EarthBound and other Nintendo games. He is currently working towards a career in storyboarding and his dream job of work at Nickelodeon.

PAIGE LYNCH / CASTYPHA: March Illustrator - "Hi, I'm Paige and I'm a recent college grad who's just trying to find their way in the world! The MOTHER series has given me a lot in the past year, and I hope in some way I can give back by making cool art."

MARCO FEDELE: December Illustrator - Marco Fedele is a marketing major with a love for illustration, comics and video games. In his free time he likes to draw, collect European comics, pet dogs and go on fun adventures. He will fight you over Italian food.

LUCILLE PALMER / AMPHIBIZZY: August Illustrator - "Hi! I'm Lucille/Amphibizzy, a traditional and digital media artist and I like to combine my favorite qualities of both! I comparatively haven't been around here for long but I love the MOTHER series dearly, especially EarthBound."

ABBY: Neighborhood at Night Poster Illustrator - "I like cute and happy Nintendo games like Animal Crossing, Kirby, and Harvest Moon! I want to make art that's also cute and interesting, and that gives you the same feeling those games give me.“

And these artists have collaborated with Producer Emma Morrissey to bring you something amazing! Also, shout out to our Social Media Coordinator/Gremlin, Sam Grigsby. He helped.

$5 Digital Copy - Are your walls already filled up? Need a calendar to-go? Just want to put some money in the tip jar? This tier is for you! Get a high-resolution digital PDF version of the Batter’s Almanac 2019 calendar complete with all the illustrations with this tier.

$20 Calendar - Get the Batter’s Almanac 2019 calendar in its physical form and full glory and spend 2019 like it’s a quirky RPG! (Party members not included.)

$27 Sticker Set - Need a little extra EarthBound fix? Look no further than this tier. You’ll get a shiny new Batter’s Almanac 2019 calendar to ring in the new year and stickers of your favorite, most obscure EarthBound cast members. So obscure your friends won’t get you or your new stickers!

$35 Posters - For those who can’t get enough art, this tier comes with two (2) posters of additional artwork not featured in the calendar! Get these two 11" by 8.5" (28cm x 22cm) full color illustrated posters by Abby (top poster) and Alyssa Browning (bottom poster). Cover your walls in EarthBound-inspired swag, and you’ll also get the Batter’s Almanac 2019 calendar and sticker set as well.

$55 T-shirt Did we mention t-shirts? We have t-shirts! Get this incredible, and mostly inedible, game-inspired shirt! You’ll get the t-shirt, Batter’s Almanac 2019 calendar, two (2) posters, and sticker set as well.

$75 Pin Fill your inventory with this tier! A cute purple aquatic dinosaur 2019 enamel pin comes along with the t-shirt, Batter’s Almanac 2019 calendar, two (2) posters, and sticker set as well! Maybe it will become a collectible pin in 2020? (No stat bonuses included on that pin either, sorry!)

$125 Caricature and Sprite - LIMITED TO 25! Let us immortalize you on the front cover of the Batter’s Almanac 2019 Calendar. Well, by immortalize, we actually mean we’ll include a cute caricature of you (or someone else of your choice, or an avatar or persona or whatever) on the cover of the calendar! Not only that, but we’ll make a sprite of that caricature in the same style of the overworld NPC’s from EarthBound and turn that sprite into a custom sticker that only you will own! Two sheets of custom sprite stickers! That’s pretty awesome! Oh, and you’ll get the enamel pin, t-shirt, Batter’s Almanac 2019 calendar,two (2) posters, and sticker set as well.

What's better than an EarthBound-inspired calendar?? Well that would be an EarthBound-inspired calendar with *your* face on it.

We do have some Stretch Goals planned but they won't be announced until we've hit at least $10,000 dollars! Which is pretty far away... for now... ;)

Risks and challenges

Every project comes with its own unique risks and challenges. We want you to know that we've done a lot to already mitigate a lot of the problems. This whole Kickstarter is mostly just a presale so that we can order a large shipment of the calendars. We already have all the art, we already have printed proofs made, we already love it. We just need you to help get over that initial part. We don't see any problems and if they do arise, we're prepared to overcome these challenges by being upfront with you all with any changes in our production plan.

We've already partnered with The Yetee to make sure that you guys will get your stuff ASAP and in great shape! The reason why we expect fulfillment in December is that producing the enamel pins will take time. We already have an approved design. we just haven't had it made yet, and that takes time.

We are committed to being upfront and informing you all about any potential hiccups from the very beginning. We are here to help our backers and get them a great calendar!

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Are your walls already filled up? Need a calendar to-go? Just want to put some money in the tip jar? This tier is for you! Get a high-resolution digital PDF version of the Batter’s Almanac 2019 calendar complete with all the illustrations with this tier.

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High-Class UFO

Need a little extra EarthBound fix? Look no further than this tier. You’ll get a shiny new Batter’s Almanac 2019 calendar to ring in the new year and stickers of your favorite, most obscure EarthBound cast members. So obscure your friends won’t get you or your new stickers!

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Smilin’ Sphere

For those who can’t get enough art, this tier comes with two (2) posters of additional artwork not featured in the calendar! Get these two 11" by 8.5" full color illustrated posters. Cover your walls in EarthBound-inspired swag, and you’ll also get the Batter’s Almanac 2019 calendar and sticker set as well.

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Ultimate Octobot

Did we mention t-shirts? We have t-shirts! Get this incredible, and mostly inedible, game-inspired shirt! You’ll get the t-shirt, Batter’s Almanac 2019 calendar, two (2) posters, and sticker set as well.

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Bionic Kraken

Fill your inventory with this tier! A cute purple aquatic dinosaur 2019 enamel pin comes along with the t-shirt, Batter’s Almanac 2019 calendar, two (2) posters, and sticker set as well! Maybe it will become a collectible pin in 2020? (No stat bonuses included on that pin either, sorry!)

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Diamond Dog

Let us immortalize you on the front cover of the Batter’s Almanac 2019 Calendar. Well, by immortalize, we actually mean we’ll include a cute caricature of you (or someone else of your choice) on the cover of the calendar! Not only that, but we’ll make a sprite of that caricature in the same style of the overworld NPC’s from EarthBound and turn that sprite into a custom sticker that only you will own! That’s pretty awesome! Oh, and you’ll get the enamel pin, t-shirt, Batter’s Almanac 2019 calendar, two (2) posters, and sticker set as well.

Kickstarter is not a store.

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Diamond Dog

Let us immortalize you on the front cover of the Batter’s Almanac 2019 Calendar. Well, by immortalize, we actually mean we’ll include a cute caricature of you (or someone else of your choice) on the cover of the calendar! Not only that, but we’ll make a sprite of that caricature in the same style of the overworld NPC’s from EarthBound and turn that sprite into a custom sticker that only you will own! That’s pretty awesome! Oh, and you’ll get the enamel pin, t-shirt, Batter’s Almanac 2019 calendar, two (2) posters, and sticker set as well.